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17
Mar

Rules Eat Context

Somewhere in your project there's a plain text file that your AI reads before it reads anything else.
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16
Mar

Volume Dressed as Efficiency

Source: Mike Ryan / SMEC (Smarter Ecommerce), Search Engine Journal — link Google's pitch for AI Max: 14% more conversions
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13
Mar

Soul Transfer

You have probably suspected that endorsements don't work the way people describe them. In 1973, a small shoe
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12
Mar

Shared Context

You have probably tried to explain what you lost. A few months before Daniel Kahneman died, Josh Wolfe sat at
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11
Mar

Feature vs Future

You have probably blamed the tool at least once. Morse demonstrated a working telegraph for Congress and President Van Buren
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10
Mar

The Wrong Contest

You already know how this story ends. John Henry, steel-driving man. The 1870s. A tunnel needed cutting. A steam drill
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09
Mar

Before the Computation

You already suspect the tool does less than the pitch deck promised. In 1940, Britain had a problem no one
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06
Mar

160 Years of Proof

In 1865, William Jevons published "The Coal Question" and made a prediction nobody believed. Steam engines had just
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05
Mar

The Time Machine

Something strange happens when you order at Five Guys. You pay. You get a number. Then someone hands you peanuts.
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04
Mar

The Wrong Proxy

Here's an exercise. A company receives a million applications a year. It hires eight to ten thousand. Only
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